Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellie Goulding

I've learned not to let it be the end of the world if a boy doesn't like you. I used to put so much effort into boys. I started playing guitar because I wanted to impress this boy. Then, I ended up in love with guitar and I didn't care about the boy anymore.

Ellie Goulding

I'm really proud of 'Bright Lights' because I was still in the mind frame of my first album when I was putting it together, but next time I want to display something different. I don't want to be as young, immature and all about boys!

Ellen Hopkins

I fell for a boy from the wrong side of the tracks.

Elisabeth Moss

I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like Hilary Swank. After she did Boys Don't Cry, I felt this yearning to go out and be even half as good as she was.

Louie Anderson

I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.

Louie Anderson

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

Lola Kirke

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

Lloyd Alexander

No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!

LL Cool J

You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.

Manolo Blahnik

I watched L'eclisse [1962] with Alain Delon and Monica Vitti. Changed my world. What a glamorous and modern film. This is what a genius is - the thing of a genius. The dresses, the tiny heels, the Cardin look, the boys dressed up as Italian gigolos - it was divine, very modern. [ Michelangelo] Antonioni, I loved and I realized: how modern.

Manolo Blahnik

When I was a boy I remember the women, how they dressed, how they behaved, what was important to them at the time. Like Lee Marvin and Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat.

John Green

Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? There are boy bands with more original material.

John Goodman

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

John Flanagan

‎Halt looked up at the trees above him. "Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees. Naturally, they didn't answer.

Jonathan Kozol

You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is the only one he has.

Jonathan Lethem

What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?

Jonathan Franzen

I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.

Judith Martin

. . . women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she wasn't, and we all know what the latter meant. Not even momentary lapses were allowed; there is no female equivalent of the boys-will-be-boys concept.

Katherine Center

And so my hope for you, good boy, as you grow taller every day, is that you will learn to take good care of yourself, and you will learn to take good care of others-and, someday, you'll see how those two things are exactly the same.

James M. Barrie

Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You're just a boy.

James M. Barrie

Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.

James M. Barrie

Boy, why are you crying?

James M. Barrie

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

James M. Barrie

But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.

Joe Pantoliano

Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off.

Joe Pantoliano

I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.

Joe Perry

I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.

Joe Frazier

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

Emmanuel Jal

It’s no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. It’s a story that a lot of people are going to discover their purpose from. When someone doesn’t know their purpose, they get lost.

Emmanuel Jal

When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.

Emma Roberts

When it comes to love, always be open. Because the second youre not pining after a boy, or a boyfriend, amazing love comes into your life.

Emma Watson

We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need everyone involved...We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change and we don't just want to talk about it. We want to try and make sure that it's tangible.

John Irving

I don't want you to describe to me—not ever—what you were doing to that poor boy to make him sound like that; but if you ever do it again, please cover his mouth with your hand.